Phantom Frequency ───────────────────────────── By Eric Uriel Hendrickson “The system doesn’t change because of perfect people. It changes because of broken people who refuse to quit.” ───────────────────────────── Axiom Heights, 2026 Chapter 1 Out of Redline ✦ The gates of Redline Maximum Security Prison did not open so much as grind apart, like the jaws of something that had been chewing on Marcus Rivera for eight years and finally decided to spit him out. He stood in the thin morning light with a transparent plastic bag hanging from one fist. Inside it: a broken watch with a cracked face, forty-seven dollars in worn bills, and a photograph so creased it had become soft as cloth. He'd handled it so many times over the years that the image was starting to blur at the edges —